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Making the Book Truly Accessible

on YouTube 26m
Talkat Tools of Change for Publishing 2011 · 2011-02-14..02-16· [accessibility]

speaker

name:Jim Fruchterman
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/uUu8CkQ3DJU
slides:none on file

summary

Bookshare reports 130,000 members, 95,000 books and users downloading over 1 million books a year while moving from scanned donations to publisher-supplied files (about 25,000 publisher-rights books). Strategy: convert PDFs to XML/EPUB, use fingerprinting “social DRM,” and offer a $20 Read2Go iPad app with synchronized text‑to‑speech. Work includes DAISY/EPUB format convergence, a DIAGRAM Center for image descriptions and tactile graphics, and a proposed Bookaccess storefront to let students and schools buy accessible editions.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:15a blunt instrument
  3. 5:47dueling moral high grounds
  4. 19:03carrot vs. stick
  5. 22:17convergence
  6. 25:00unlock the potential

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